Thanks!Your TV set might already have Saorview built in and you might get the channels using a small indoor aerial depending on your location. Your Broadband has nothing to do with Saorview.
Thanks! I know - over time I came to find annoying to having to chromcast each of the channels in the TV: it's slow, their apps have different levels of quality (Virgin Media TV chromecast feature is particularly bad), so I thought that maybe running an extra cheap cable from the wall to the TV could improve the viewing experience. It seems I can't. I'll stick to players online then!Why bother with free to air / Saorview when all of the channels are available as players online on your laptop ? You can even get all the UK channels if you subscribe to a VPN for a very small annual fee. If you ditched the TV in favour of a 40 inch computer monitor you wouldnt even be liable for a TV license.
You wont get FTA channels from your broadband by connecting a coax to your TV.
Not quite - An Post have that covered too. From tvlicence.ieWhy bother with free to air / Saorview when all of the channels are available as players online on your laptop ? You can even get all the UK channels if you subscribe to a VPN for a very small annual fee. If you ditched the TV in favour of a 40 inch computer monitor you wouldnt even be liable for a TV license.
This confirms that using a monitor to use 'catchup' services doesn't require a TV licence, but using them to watch live does require one.Not quite - An Post have that covered too. From tvlicence.ie
I only watch TV content on a monitor, Do I need a TV Licence?
You require a TV Licence in the following circumstances:
Connecting a SKY/Virgin Media/Saorview or any type of Digital TV Receiver to your monitor
Viewing any TV Programmes broadcast for general reception over broadband (e.g. Eir TV/Vodafone TV) on your monitor requires a TV Licence.
I don't think that is correct. I believe you are fine to watch players such as RTE/Virgin Media Player live on a monitor without an RF/TV/saorview tuner or satelitte tuner without a license. If you connect a virgin media TV box to a monitor or a Sky, Eir or Vodafone TV box to a monitor you may require a license. Watching RTE player live on your phone definitely does not require a license. I would prefer you quote from the legislation rather than An Post's simplified interpretation on their website (which is not law). If you have a TV or watch streaming on a TV you do require a license.This confirms that using a monitor to use 'catchup' services doesn't require a TV licence, but using them to watch live does require one.
Untrue.Why bother with free to air / Saorview when all of the channels are available as players online on your laptop ? You can even get all the UK channels if you subscribe to a VPN for a very small annual fee. If you ditched the TV in favour of a 40 inch computer monitor you wouldnt even be liable for a TV license.
Untrue.
" "television set" means any electronic apparatus capable of receiving and exhibiting television broadcasting services broadcast for general reception ( whether or not its use for that purpose is dependent on the use of anything else in conjunction with it ) and any software or assembly comprising such apparatus and other apparatus."
They've been wanting to switch this over to a public broadcasting charge payable by all households for years now. The recent RTE debacle has made sure that can has been kicked down the road again, at least until after the next election.Government not keeping up with reality. I can't remember the last time I actually turned the TV over to Saorview.
Different horses for courses. My parents for instance wouldn't have the patience / be tech savvy enough to bother with those suggestions. They love however having a TV with built-in FTA terrestrial and satellite receiver, because they can easily flick between RTE, BBC, UTV, C4 using the one remote, like they've done for most of their lives. They had to pay the this privilege though, whereas now it costs them nothing.Why bother with free to air / Saorview when all of the channels are available as players online on your laptop ? You can even get all the UK channels if you subscribe to a VPN for a very small annual fee. If you ditched the TV in favour of a 40 inch computer monitor you wouldnt even be liable for a TV license.
You wont get FTA channels from your broadband by connecting a coax to your TV.